start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Can't wait to get the 14 cd reissue of Load

Here's mine on a related note: I went to Epic Games to get the free GTA V for PC this weekend.

(I've got a PC that can barely load Minesweeper, but hey, it gives me something to "shoot" for!)

The next thing that happened has been happening way too frequently lately. I create a new account, go through the whole process, and then at the end, it says "You already have an account! Sign in with that!"

I promise I've never had an account with Epic Games before this weekend. I go through the motions again like a crazy person and yup, get the exact same result.

Then I get the idea, Why not reset my password? I do and go through the motions of that. This time, I log into my account with no problems.

Except it's not my account. It's Otto Baker lll's account. You might not know him as Otto because his friends probably call him Tre – which, btw, is my name too.

Anyway. Otto/Tre downloaded Fortnite from Epic a year ago and was never heard from again. But now I've got to be Otto if and when I ever successfully boot GTA V up on this crap PC.

But here's thing that I got irrationally made about. The welcome screen spells out our name in all-caps. And that's where I learned that this idiot didn't spell his name Otto Baker III like I would have. No. His name on epic was OTTO BAKER LLL.

OTTO BAKER LOL LOL LOL

Haaaaa

You could have done a lot worse than “Otto” though

wait, how did someone else register an account under your email?

I don't know!

I get trebaker, tre.baker... dudes who go by trevon and I guess just forget about the second part?

Maybe he registered, never got the confirmation email and gave up, actually leaving his Fortnite hanging there in limbo. I DON'T KNOW.

My government name isn't really Otto though, nor was his. Hell, I guess that asshole Secretary of State under the first Bush was a Tre Baker too.

ahh my friend used his gov't name as his email and he was the first person with his exact name to get a gmail, so he constantly gets other peoples emails cos they forget to put "j✧✧✧.ja✧✧✧.jinglehei✧✧✧.schmid✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧" and just leave out the "43" or w/e.

so that makes sense.

Yeah, I got both my day-to-day name and the government one.

Boy, my dad was pissed about that last one.

I get this shit all the time, I'm firstinitialsurname@gmail, and both personally and professionally annoyed at the number of companies that swear that you need to click this link to confirm your email address, but it's a bluff, they'll send you "today in Zoosk" emails from now until the end of time even if you don't.

I've said all this before on the misdirected emails thread, but

The Trebaker one gets all the gamer spam, the college recruiting, the military recruiting, fashion deals for stuff I'm way too old for. A definite African American vibe that runs through it all.

The Ottobaker one – that's the one where I get the Trump spam, the fwd:fwd:fwd threads about the only people left in this country to do all the work is you and me and you ain't doing sh*t!, the rental agreements, the surveys from car dealerships, the announcements that another alumni of the bowling league has passed away due to heart disease.

I live in two worlds –– and I wish they'd both stay out of my inbox!

On my ilx address, I get a lot of teeth x-rays and invoices for Colgate.

https://i.imgur.com/wcKMUPU.jpg

i'm here to say it's very stupid of xfinity's automated customer service system to have a fake typing sound. we know no one is typing! what is the point of this?

is taht part of that Innocent Smoothies aesthetic? Is the sound of somebody typing on a computer keyboard different inherently to a person typing?
Maybe its just to show taht the line hasn't gone dead?

i have one pixel in the middle of my monitor that has gone off and is lit bright green at all times

it is driving me bonkers

my kindle has a scratch in it that is letting bright light through, probably cat's fault

it did occur to me that the typing sound was supposed to signal to people that they are still on the line. it was just annoying. i then i had the most pleasant call with comcast, the "my promotion ran out and you are charging me $95 for internet" call you have to have every year. i recognized the guy was in baltimore from his accent and he said "oh because i say tieuuu, right?" usually they sound like they're in texas or something.

Typing would be a better sound than that chka-chka-chka electric popcorn sound it sometimes makes.

Kate sometimes you can massage angry pixels with a fingertip and they will ease up or switch off

Every time I visit any website in the entire world (except, mercifully, this one) I have to do all or most of this to see one paragraph of relevant text

Manage cookies
Block notifications
Press x to close 'get the app' banner
Mute/close autoplay advert
Close a popup
Wait for all spurious surrounding click bait bollocks to load before body text

Who decided that this was the user experience we all wanted?

my favourite is when the site waits exactly 1.5 seconds before popping up “SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER” in my face. calm your farm, i don’t even know what your fucking site is yet.

oh and the answer is always no.

My kids seem to be having a hard time getting their heads around the idea that the answer to "Can our shitty website send you pop up alerts in your browser?" is always no. Also they keep telling me to get some coupon thing called "honey" - no idea what it is, trying to get them to understand that adverts = bad is hard work.

Honey Science Corp., headquartered in Los Angeles, California, operates a browser extension that aggregates and automatically applies online coupons on eCommerce websites. It is a subsidiary of PayPal. Honey's revenue comes from a commission made on user transactions with partnering retailers.

yeah same old cookie spying browser-slowing toolbar grift, paypal are a shitty company too, I swear I will find they have managed to install this on my computer one day though.

I never get these on Mac.

i give up. i hate everybody and i expect everybody else to hate me. that's where this is all headed, right?

I feel much the same despair

people in the uk and ireland accidentally using my email to sign up for things like valuedopinions.co.uk

when somebody accidentally bumps an older iteration of the IA threads, and so i post my IA feelings there, and then the current one gets bumped, and it stays floating towards the top for some time, and other ilxors commiserate and acknowledge these here IA feelings, but the ones i posted get buried in half a day

someone needs to lock that number 2 thread

two hour movie with a 5 minute 'movie news' program in the middle of it.

PVR will record it as two bits. only the 5 minute movie news is actually only 3 minutes long (and utterly worthless) meaning i lose the start of part two every time.

Can you not set it to pad every recording?

Ha, it is. But it doesn't pad the middle of split programs like this. It does seem to know they are special because it puts up a little Jigsaw icon next to them and will record both parts when I tell it to record either half, it's just not intelligent enough to know to pad the middle.

I wonder if the other one does any better?

the older PVR, the one that has been in semi-retirement since it threw a wobbly and i bought the new one (it recovered soon after...) was somehow even worse.

recording Resident Evil last night, on channel 50 (i think), i got

Part 1 (padded at start)
Part 2 (missing the start)
Part 2 (missing the start, but padded at end)

the old pre-virgin tivo let you manually choose recordings - a channel, a start time and an end time, which would deal with this fine.

Can you not record the short movie news programme you dont want and pad that?

This going close to the ridiculous concept on the spotify thread where you work out how much of a song you need to listen to stop the algorithm from recommending it again.

It's great when tech makes life easier.

padding is global so the 5 minute thing should be padded. except it doesn't pad conseq programmes (which is kind of sensible).

if you record an hour's stanadlone thing you get 66 minutes, 3 minutes each end

if you record 2 hours one after the other you get two 63 minute programmes, the first one padded at the front, the second padded at the end. but these jigsaw programmes seem to be handled differently.

Resident Evil re-started mid-scene but when i checked i'd actually only missed about 4 seconds of corridor (and a similar amount from the end of first part). but it's jarring.

I share your frustration because even with TiVo I have sometimes had a tough time getting certain things to record, e.g., sporting events that run long.

That said, in the olden days we used to watch stuff when it was on!

.... a child could kick a ball in the street...

... get offa my lawn...

this is rational anger but i don't care.

debit card/credit card fraud I've had happen multiple times in recent years, but it's not too difficult to deal with. but I had a fraudulent ACH transaction (or, for all I know, my bank just fucked up and processed someone else's transaction on my account). it was only for $20, which they refunded, and they told me to update all of my regularly scheduled payments.

I didn't realize just how many monthly payments I had coming out of there. It has taken me hours over several days nabbing each one off of my bank statements. sometimes I don't remember logins to the websites, or the websites make it ridiculously difficult to update the account to the new one I set up. There's one (my renter's insurance) I can't even get into because it says I'm registered, but won't let me reset the password because on that screen, it says I'm NOT ON FILE, so I have to wait until tomorrow for their call center to open.

The bank specialist I talked to didn't tell me that any pending charges that weren't processed yet wouldn't go through. a $6 pending payment from 5/26 went through. a $35 credit card payment that was pending from Discover from 5/27 did not, was returned for insufficient funds even though I had enough funds to pay it. so now I have to make an appointment with BOA to get them to pay me back for the credit card returned check fees.

all this fucking work over a $20 charge. it's taken fuckin' forever to fix.

this is the age of miracles and wonders

the word 'colorways'

that's not real

I hate it too, map.

i think it's okay if you're like, a professional designer. twatty buzzwords are a job requirement.

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Bankers capitalising on psychedelics.
The man sticking it to you?

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A (white, male) podcaster I follow has gone full-on BLM to the extent that he has stopped posting about his show and is now picking fights with his listeners for seemingly unrelated reasons (having a go at all of gen x the other day for uh making mixtapes?) and while I am entirely on his side on almost all of this (not the mixtapes thing) I am starting to feel that he is making it all about himself and not helping the cause at all. I am muting him and whining about it on here, sorry.

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The man sticking it to you?

My mixtapes, in retrospect, were probably pretty horrible.

Sic being a dick as usual. How surprising.

His post completely belongs in this thread.